I will be keen to see if this trend continues once extensions are updated for FF3 or if they will tighten restrictions on what extensions can use wrt resources.

My biggest gripe about FF has always been memory usage.

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I constantly here this yet I've used Firefox for years since the Phoenix days on numerous platforms and have never noticed a memory issue. I don't care what task manager syas, but have you ever actually noticed a performance hit? Do you load tons of extensions?

I am currently on FreeBSD, I've had firefox open for about 3 hours and it is reported as using 120MB of memory.

I constantly here this yet I've used Firefox for years since the Phoenix days on numerous platforms and have never noticed a memory issue. I don't care what task manager syas, but have you ever actually noticed a performance hit? Do you load tons of extensions?

I am currently on FreeBSD, I've had firefox open for about 3 hours and it is reported as using 120MB of memory.

I frequently and up with nothing but tab icons when at work. WHile XP's task manager is inaccurate, it reports firefox as being close to 900MB, the system is sluggish and firefox hangs for 5-10 seconds when scrolling or changing tab.

Could this also be a case of using AJAX as these some heavy AJAX sites will use a lot of bandwidth for modules especially if they don't load quite right? This could be a problem especially if a lot of tabs are used in the browser itself. I have noticed that this does seem to affect other browsers as well, namely Opera which is my preferred browser.

This seems to happen with the increased usage of tabs and the amount of tabs that are open. Strangely enough I have a pretty good record with an IE shell Maxthon.